SECAmb Awards 2017

All the winners at the 2017 SECAmb Awards

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb)
staff and volunteers celebrated long service and special
achievements at the Trust’s annual awards ceremonies.

The event saw attendees recognised for long service and others
received Chief Executive Commendations across a range of categories
including clinical excellence, patient care and for actions above
and beyond the call of duty.

Clinical Excellence – Barry
Armour, Paramedic Practitioner, Redhill – For championing the work
of palliative care teams locally and for his volunteer work to gain
valuable experience in this challenging subject.

Above and Beyond the Call of
Duty – Kate Nebbett – Dispatch Team Leader, Banstead
Emergency Operations Centre – For her actions in stopping to help
when she saw a car off a road and smoking down an embankment near
Horsham, West Sussex.

Above and Beyond the Call of
Duty – Sisters and Emergency Medical Advisors, Banstead
EOC, Chloe Gardner and Joanne Ashworth – for their actions in
stopping and starting CPR when they came across an RTC in which a
motorcyclist had been seriously injured on the M25.

Outstanding Patient Care
– Helen Sivyer, NHS 111 Health Advisor, Ashford - recognised for
her quick thinking in realising over the phone that a patient was
agonal breathing a sign they could be going into cardiac
arrest.

Outstanding Patient Care –
Michele Harvey – Associate Practitioner Medway and Michelle
Dziedzic – Technician Medway – for their quick thinking and
treatment in saving the life of a man who they established was
suffering from life-threatening anaphylaxis.

Outstanding Patient Care –
Matt Webb, Paramedic, Epsom and Kathryn Cowley, Paramedic, Gatwick
– for their actions and clinical interventions after coming across
a serious RTC on the M3.

Outstanding Patient Care –
Kent Fire and Rescue Sevenoaks firefighters, Danny Barratt, Jason
Jones and David Ratcliffe – for the clinical treatment provided
when co-responding to reports a man was under a car and not
breathing.

Leadership – Jo Crerar –
Operational Unit Manager - for her efforts and dedication in
leading by example, maintaining high standards and developing staff
teams at Ashford Make Ready Centre.

Leadership – Ian Heskett,
Clinical Team Leader, Paddock Wood Make Ready Centre – for his
leadership skills in acting as the Trust’s lead for preparing for
major roadworks taking place on the A21 and Maidstone gyratory.

Public Commendation – To a
group of Warlingham area members of the public - PC Stuart
Longmire, Ruth Harper, Jon Hill and Charlotte Bruce – for their
quick thinking and actions in providing CPR and using a public
access defibrillator on a man who collapsed at Whyteleafe Railway
Station.

Voluntary or Community
Service – Donald Lugg, Chaplain, Thanet Make Ready Centre
– For his dedication in providing voluntary support and care to
Trust staff in Thanet.

Voluntary or Community
Service – Sam Carter, Rother Community First Responders, –
For his ongoing commitment and his role in responding to the tragic
events at Camber Sands last summer.

Team of the Year – Medical
response team, Amex Community Stadium, Brighton – To the SECAmb, St
John and Brighton and Hove Albion team for providing outstanding
medical support at the club’s home games and for successfully
resuscitating four out of four people who have suffered cardiac
arrests at or very near to the stadium.

Employee of the Year – Kim
Blakeburn, Dispatcher, Quality Team, Banstead – for her dedication
and hard work in improving the recruitment process for new
Emergency Medical Advisors.

Queen’s Ambulance Service medals for
Long Service & Good conduct were presented to:

Jane Brown, Ambulance Technician, Ashford, Kent

Roy Cavey, Paramedic, Paddock Wood

Bryan Hopperton, Paramedic, Ashford, Kent

Lisa Masey, Clinical Team Leader, Ashford, Kent

Paul Moorhouse, Paramedic Practitioner, Beckenham, Kent

Julie Ormrod, Paramedic Practitioner, Coxheath

Katherine O’Connor, Paramedic Dartford

Andy Pascoe, Clinical Team Leader, Hastings

Robin Scott, Clinical Team Leader, Eastbourne

Barbara Sharville, Paramedic, Redhill

Richard Steinbeck, Paramedic, Thanet

Simon Trafford, Ambulance Technician, Medway

Susan Tugwell, Clinical Operations Manager, Walton, Surrey

Suzanne Wareham, Paramedic, Medway

Emma Webber, Paramedic Practitioner, Coxheath

Amanda Williams, Ambulance Technician, Dartford

Shaun Baron, Critical Care Paramedic, Worthing

Richard Brackenbury, Paramedic Practitioner, Tangmere

Chris Britton, Retired Paramedic, Horsham

Steven Burdon, Paramedic, Polegate

Stuart Dallas, Clinical Supervisor, Banstead

Sue Humphries, Paramedic, EOC Lewes

Duncan Jones, Clinical Operations Manager, Gatwick

Andrew Kinder, Clinical Team Leader, Gatwick

James Laidlaw, Clinical Team Leader, Walton

Damien Lau-Kee, Clinical Team Leader, Chertsey

Steve Mackenzie, Paramedic, Worthing

Cheryl McCormick, Clinical Team Leader, Leatherhead

Caryll Overy, Paramedic, Haywards Heath

David Strudwick, Paramedic Practitioner, Redhill

Neil Swain, Paramedic, Epsom

Paul Trevains, Clinical Supervisor, Banstead EOC

20 years NHS Long Service
medals (for staff not eligible to receive Queen’s
Medal)